Start Messy, Start Now

I've been wrestling with whether to continue this podcast due to overwhelming demand and my busy schedule, but I've decided to commit to three or more mini-episodes per week this summer. Success isn't static—we all grow and change constantly, as evidenced by how different I am at 41 compared to who I was at 26.

• Committing to a summer series of three mini-episodes per week
• Reflecting on personal growth and how we change over time 
• Managing anxiety from hundreds of potential podcast guests waiting in queue
• Embracing the philosophy of "do it messy" instead of seeking perfection
• Learning from creators like The Chic Natural who started with unpolished content
• Encouraging listeners to start now—not waiting for the "perfect" time
• Finding what inspires you enough to keep going when things get tough

Email me at steelrosespodcast@gmail.com with topics or quotes you'd like me to discuss on future episodes. You can also find me on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Chapters

• 0:00 Podcast Mission and Inner Conflict
• 1:18 Growth and Change in Life
• 2:48 Podcast Guest Anxiety
• 4:31 Embracing Messy Beginnings
• 6:12 Start Now, Not Later
• 7:32 Finding Your Passion and Acting

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Everybody. This is Delrose's podcast. This podcast was created for women, by women, to elevate women's voices. You have Jenny with you today, so going hard with these little thought starters here. Something that I had shared on a prior episode was my the tug of war, the internal tug of war I was having with my podcast, with this podcast, and, to be honest, whether I wanted to continue doing it or not, I did get a little emotional in the episode. But I think that also speaks very much to how much I care about this podcast and how much it's important to me to use my voice. So I did commit, I think I said in our prior episode for the summer series, I'd really like it to be three or more episodes, mini-sodes, a week. So that's really what I'm committing to.

Speaker 1: 0:45

I'm repeating it again because I want to be held accountable. I want to do this. I really, really want to do this. So I'm going to lean in here Now. I had I struggled a bit with getting my guest episodes recorded and everything, just because of my schedule, and I'm going to start leaning into that as well. So that way you have a great fall series. But just so you guys know like this is something that's an ongoing shift and adjust.

Speaker 1: 1:09

Now, I think it's important to note that, because I feel like majority of us think that success is well, you've achieved it and it's going to be consistent. It's going to stay the same, and life isn't like that. You know, if you think of yourself 10 years ago, are you the same exact person you were? There's no way you are, because you've gone through things in the past 10 years that have impacted you as a person and it has shifted how you've thought about things. When I think about the person that I was when I was 26 and the person that I am today at 41, my goodness, what a journey. I mean it's like the wildest thing to think about and I think I've said it before too that like I can see definitive time periods of where, who I was in these different roles, and it would almost be interesting, if not comical, to sit down, all the versions of jenny that I can think of in my head like high school school Jenny, sorority Jenny, grammar school Jenny, and like early 20s Jenny, mid 20s Jenny and really sit down and talk with them. Like I feel like it would be a wild experience to be able to go back and be like, oh, like, why would you do this? You know I digress, but it's just something I've been kind of thinking about. So my point here is that you know we all grow and we all change every single day, and you know so do the things that we do, the things that we do every single day. Our jobs will change when we feel like we've outgrown them. I've talked about that before in prior episodes.

Speaker 1: 2:33

My usual MO is about three years at any agency, and it's because I usually get to a point where I'm like I've grown and this is it and I'd like to move forward from here. I'm very fortunate right now, the agency that I'm currently employed in. I'm incredibly happy and thrilled to be there and, to be perfectly frank, this feels like the final place for me in my industry. I see it as a place that has such a supportive environment and has such good people. It's a tremendous gift and I'm incredibly grateful that I had someone who journeyed over to this agency first, because they pulled me in, and I can never express the amount of gratitude I have to that person for giving this gift to me, taking a couple steps back when I was thinking through what I was going to do here with this podcast.

Speaker 1: 3:19

Part of the hesitation and part of the challenge that I was starting to encounter was I currently have a few hundred people waiting in the inbox of the podcast, interested in being guests. Now, for some reason, this started giving me a lot of anxiety. Now it's incredibly amazing, to be perfectly honest with you, to see the amount of outreach that is currently happening, but it's also really overwhelming because it also puts me in a position of people are really looking to me and this is, you know, people are really wanting to be on this podcast now and I have to deliver for them. I have to make sure I'm showing up right, you know, and I need to make sure that the times that I have set up for recordings, that I'm all in and that I'm really going to be here for these people that want to be on the podcast. And with the way that my job was going busy wise the kids were all really busy in the spring the whole thing just started giving me really bad anxiety and I talked about it before that.

Speaker 1: 4:11

I was like, all right, do I pull the plug, what do I do? And I almost recorded a farewell episode, like it went that far. But then I held off because in my gut, I don't want to let any of this go, and I referred back to something that I knew a few years back when I started and I've reminded myself about it a few times actually since I've been doing this is do it messy, just do it messy. You all are still here with me on this journey. Whether there's intro music, whether there's hiccups in the audio, whether it's completely polished, you're all here with me and you're with me as I figure all this out.

Speaker 1: 4:43

And, yes, would it be nice if I could get every single episode to perfection or if I could afford to pay someone to do it for me. Like, of course, absolutely that would be amazing. And if I could run this thing like the business that I'd like to run it 110%. But the reality that is is that's not what's happening right now. And how can I make this still work? How can I do this podcast and make it fit? And the answer is I'm going to do it messy. I'm going to do this summer series so so real for all of you that you're going to get like a load of Jenny every single time you listen and be like wow, jen, like take it easy.

Speaker 1: 5:15

But it kind of ties into a quote that I saw that I wanted to relay over to you guys, and the quote starts it says start in November, start in your forties. Start on Friday. Start at 5 PM, start on the 31st start. The point is people, for example, where it says start in November oh, I'm going to start my diet and exercise routine January 1st. I'm going to do it Like this is going to be me. Well, why Like? Why? Why wait? Just do it now, just start now. Start small. You know, I talked about exercise and wellness on another episode and I'm going to start like as messy as I can just to make sure I'm doing something. Start now, start in your 40s. Are you in your 40s and you have something in the back of your mind that's nagging at you that you've always wanted to try out, but you just haven't really had the guts to do it. And really, reality is that's what it is. When I ordered my podcast microphone, that took guts, that took a lot. That ordering my podcast microphone was a big deal for me. I was scared. So just do it, just go, pull the trigger. Don't wait until a certain time to do something. Just go now and it's going to be messy and it's going to. It's going to be crappy but like who cares, if you look back.

Speaker 1: 6:23

I'll refer to the chic natural on YouTube. Love her channel, love it. She's vegan, she has healthy food, it's a lifestyle channel. She has her own cookbook, her jewelry line. I love what she does, not just because I think she's fantastic, but I love what she does because she's she's showing up authentically. But I can also see the trail of where she started to where she is now and to me, watching someone like that continue developing down their path is such a huge, freaking deal.

Speaker 1: 6:52

Nobody started out polished. Her very first episodes on her channel were terrible, terribly shot, no editing, no music. You know it might have been light music, but you know I'm saying like it was not really glossy. And now here I am in my second year of the podcast and yeah, like I'm still like having episodes where I'm just kind of throwing things at the wall and hoping it sticks. But like that I had these really amazing episodes. If you revisit some of the episodes that were aired this year, I mean this was like some of the highest rated episodes aired this past spring Highest rated episodes, for my whole podcast happened this year.

Speaker 1: 7:32

I think that says a lot about the energy that this podcast is drawing. That energy wouldn't exist if I wasn't just doing it messy. You have to just go. So, whatever it is that you are noodling on, you're like I'd like to really do this, but I'm not really sure what to do. Figure it out and start doing it, and maybe you're not figuring it out, maybe you just start.

Speaker 1: 7:50

Do you want to get your real estate license and find an online course? There's so much stuff. Do you want to learn another language? Do you want to start your own business? What is something that you really love, that you'd like to lean into? That's going to really inspire you to continue going once the going gets tough, just go Like really. That's really the key takeaway is just do it. Hope you enjoyed this little mini-sode. If you have any little topics that you'd like me to discuss, or if there's any kind of quotes that you want to send my way, you'd like me to air them, I'd be happy to do it. You can email me at steelversespodcast at gmailcom. You can find me on Instagram, linkedin, facebook, for sure. I don't know. I think I have a TikTok, but it's not active.